what's the strangest conversation you've had with a taxi driver.

bigneacy

chatterpillar wrote:

Dublin girls always sit in the back of the car

sluts

Sunnyisland

bigneacy wrote: »

sluts

wexie

...taking a taxi from hotel to the office in London....taxi driver spent nearly half an hour convincing me I really should take one of the about 20 copies of Mein Kampf he had in the backseat cause 'a nice white boy in a suit like you will find it interesting reading'

very creepy and unsettling

Taking a taxi from Temple bar to Dundrum (bout 3 am saturday morning) and walking home from the bleedin horse cause the taxi driver was more locked then we were (which was quite an achievement) and insisted he was fine as he'd 'done a couple of lines'

jaffacakesyum

chatterpillar wrote: »

Yeah that's coz you're from Dublin though, right? It's the norm here, it wouldn't be done at all where I'm from though!!

I'm from Dublin and always sit in the front seat. I don't get girls that sit in the back - it's so rude!

Love having the chats with the taxi men. I'm sure I've had a few funny conversations alright but I only get taxis home from town on a night out so ehhh yeah...don't remember much :pac:

wexie

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Love having the chats with the taxi men.

Isn't it just crazy how they're all called 'taxi man'?

ihsb

I love my taxi men! I always call them by their name and I find myself confiding in them.

The weirdest has to be when one (about 60 years old, I am 23) gave me his number incase I didn't get lucky that night so he could show me a good time. I got the taxi from a taxi rank not far from my house, I hate walking past it still.

Another was me crying my eyes out and the taxi driver telling me that all men are pricks and I am lovely and deserve better. How nice?!

themandan6611

taxi from a hotel to train station in westport.

bout 2 pm, hop in with the other half. Start with the usual conversation about the weather, when the driver says " yeah sure its a great day alright, I think when I finish up soon I'll get a six pack and watch some porn for the afternoon".

eh o'k.

The Master of Disaster

I had one a few years ago who had been in the French Foreign Legion when Somalia first kicked off in the early 90's and he started telling me about all the exceptionally horrible stuff he'd seen there. He was actually a really interesting and nice guy but it was clear that period had left a bit of a mark on him. It was just a really surreal conversation to be having on the way home from a night in town.

Babybuff

had one lad tell me how he liked to dress up in womens clothes and stuff. I was a regular with the company so I think he was at the stage where he felt like he could tell me anything.

wexie

......Reading all these posts I can't help but wonder if there's a taxi driver forum somewhere with threads like:

'You'll never guess what I got these eejits to believe today'
'How much can you freak out a customer before they leggit?'

etc....

Any taxi drivers on wanna enlighten us? Do you guys have competitions in headmessing?

AngryBollix

An albanian taxi driver in London tried to tell me that John Terry was sucking off Sol Campbell

LH Pathe

None.. that.. I deemed strange as such; usually overly see eye to eye with em to such an extent I find it hard to part when I reach my destination - one mans terrorist is another mans freedom talker? Best friends I never made.

Yeah Yeah Yeah

In London , good long drive outta town. Got chatting about kids. He had a picture of his daughter on dash board. And we was chatting about family and kids.

The strange part was he would not take a shilling from me. He said he was on his way home anyway.

Normally cost me 15 sterlings. Leicester Square to Kentish Town.

FoxT

Was on a business trip in Bucharest a few years back. Bucharest is a nice city, lovely architecure, cobbled squares, etc. Passing through one of the squares, I commented to the driver that it looked beautiful. He told me that causescu used to torture prisoners & when the torturers were done, they'd take the prisoners up in a helicopter & dump them on the square.

He told me he'd often seen bodies there. Don't know if it was true or not, though I suspect it was. In any event, it shut me up...

Reamer Fanny

Are you busy.

Where To

Some of the posters on this thread would make great taxi men/women :pac:

Natural storytellers. . . .

Reamer Fanny

Where To wrote: »

Some of the posters on this thread would make great taxi men/women :pac:

Natural storytellers. . . .

My sarcasm detector just exploded